Police cautions and fines for wishing others "Merry Christmas" in public
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Police cautions and fines for wishing others "Merry Christmas" in public
It's nearly November and we've made no preparation whatsoever for this years War on Christmas™. We're hopelessly underprepared if we're going to finally win it this year.
Our enemies are all distracted with brexit, this is our year!
Our enemies are all distracted with brexit, this is our year!
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Are you going short of the attention you crave?
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Stop making it all about him! He hates that.Lord Rothbury wrote:Are you going short of the attention you crave?
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A bit. Call be a commie or something.Lord Rothbury wrote:Are you going short of the attention you crave?
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Not true. I love it when you make things about me. I just don't like it when people make it about me and then claim that i've done that.thatdberight wrote:Stop making it all about him! He hates that.
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We just need to remain in the EU. It plans to ban Christmas across its member states so as not to offend the Turks when they join (which is definitely happening next year, keep it quiet!)
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And we won't be able to even veto it because vetoes dont' exist.martin_p wrote:We just need to remain in the EU. It plans to ban Christmas across its member states so as not to offend the Turks when they join (which is definitely happening next year, keep it quiet!)
You're a genius, martin. I can see now why the General Dawkins speaks highly of you.
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No. You love that even more because then it's about you and you can play your, increasingly overused, victim card. It's just win win whinge for you...Imploding Turtle wrote:Not true. I love it when you make things about me. I just don't like it when people make it about me and then claim that i've done that.
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You're so angry.thatdberight wrote:No. You love that even more because then it's about you and you can play your, increasingly overused, victim card. It's just win win whinge for you...
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Oh gosh, no. I nearly wish I could get myself that agitated over the likes of you.Imploding Turtle wrote:You're so angry.
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I don't wish to take sides here, but I definitely will anyway. IT is spot on. Christmas is a bag of cr*p and it's an even bigger bag of cr*p when we're still in October. Fining people (or even sewing their mouths up) for simply mentioning it would be just dandy with me! I'm quite handy with a needle and thread so I'm more than happy to do the deed!
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Local mosque in Leeds has already sent fliers to the local communities about the offence it will cause.
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oh my god, calm down.thatdberight wrote:Oh gosh, no. I nearly wish I could get myself that agitated over the likes of you.
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I've never understood how anyone over the age of about 15 can say that they "love Christmas".
Sentimental, false, enforced, commercial and expensive.
I hate it.
Sentimental, false, enforced, commercial and expensive.
I hate it.
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Exactly this!!fidelcastro wrote:I've never understood how anyone over the age of about 15 can say that they "love Christmas".
Sentimental, false, enforced, commercial and expensive.
I hate it.
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I know a lot of parents who love it, but only due to having young kids and so they get involved with it all - I guess their children's excitement passes onto them. I'm not sure what's wrong about that?Dark Cloud wrote:Exactly this!!
I don't even have kids, but I can understand it.
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I agree that I dislike the commercialism and hype. But for me it celebrates God’s intervention into the world because He loves us so much. That to me is worth celebrating. Oh and by the way I am over 15.
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Whitgord wrote:I agree that I dislike the commercialism and hype. But for me it celebrates God’s intervention into the world because He loves us so much. That to me is worth celebrating. Oh and by the way I am over 15.
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Oh come on, it’s free days off work. What’s not to like!!
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Not for everyone.martin_p wrote:Oh come on, it’s free days off work. What’s not to like!!
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I do get that Whitgord and yes, the Christians nicked it off the Pagans originally, but it's been a Christian celebration for many a year now and I have absolutely no issue with that, especially if it involves a few days or even a week of "festivities", but that's definitely not how Asda and Tesco et al see it. For them it's quite simply the biggest cash cow of the year and as mentioned above it has simply been hijacked and force fed to us annually pretty much from the end of September. it's commercialised, idealised, oversentimentalised and basically been ruined. For very young kids it's still probably fairly good, but even for them I suspect it's rapidly losing its gloss and its magic as it's become all about the money and the "brand"! Bin it for me.Whitgord wrote:I agree that I dislike the commercialism and hype. But for me it celebrates God’s intervention into the world because He loves us so much. That to me is worth celebrating. Oh and by the way I am over 15.
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Have a break mate, you seem quite annoyed.thatdberight wrote:Oh gosh, no. I nearly wish I could get myself that agitated over the likes of you.
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I am. Really got my goat. Really irked.bfccrazy wrote:Have a break mate, you seem quite annoyed.
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I'm sure people with paper rounds get them off too?fidelcastro wrote:Not for everyone.
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And Bob Scratchitt!FactualFrank wrote:I'm sure people with paper rounds get them off too?
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I wouldn't know, but many people simply have to work at Christmas, even Christmas day.FactualFrank wrote:I'm sure people with paper rounds get them off too?
It's just the way it is.
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Bruce Hornsby didn't have a day off...
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Some things will never change!evensteadiereddie wrote:Bruce Hornsby didn't have a day off...
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Can we call it Winterval please?
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY HAHAHAHAHAHA
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C of E is the most benign and forgiving of all the faiths, allowing the most laid back way of living, based around the absolution of 'Even I, Jesus couldn't make it on this planet so absolve yourselves, I messed up , I said it would happen'.
This in tandem with the Western Enlightenment of objective philosophical doubt, allowed England to progress to being the greatest nation on Earth and its peoples renowned for their generosity of spirit, not least tipping up the most when the tsunami happened, Boxing Day whenever.
The Christmas gift, the present symbolizes the 'present' of continuing time and space that allows us to be and witness the profundity of reality from a relatively safe place (generally), the myth of Father Christmas symbolizing the mystic and mysterious source of the gift of the present.
The transcendental pictorial context of perspective renders atheism a spurious fact-less belief with no philosophical basis.
Whatever the truth or lie of Christianity, that is not the point, as it is with other faiths.
We live in a secular country where the ethos of forgiveness via absolution gives England a humane aspect way in advance of other countries.
We don't have to practice compassion, we are as a nation of people already that.
We don't need to 'discipline the monkey mind', we don't need to practice mindfulness, we as a nation already do it, think 24 million cars a day traveling and only 2500 deaths per year.
Our biggest failing is in our consideration of other people's values for reasons of etiquette when our values are the best anyway.
This in tandem with the Western Enlightenment of objective philosophical doubt, allowed England to progress to being the greatest nation on Earth and its peoples renowned for their generosity of spirit, not least tipping up the most when the tsunami happened, Boxing Day whenever.
The Christmas gift, the present symbolizes the 'present' of continuing time and space that allows us to be and witness the profundity of reality from a relatively safe place (generally), the myth of Father Christmas symbolizing the mystic and mysterious source of the gift of the present.
The transcendental pictorial context of perspective renders atheism a spurious fact-less belief with no philosophical basis.
Whatever the truth or lie of Christianity, that is not the point, as it is with other faiths.
We live in a secular country where the ethos of forgiveness via absolution gives England a humane aspect way in advance of other countries.
We don't have to practice compassion, we are as a nation of people already that.
We don't need to 'discipline the monkey mind', we don't need to practice mindfulness, we as a nation already do it, think 24 million cars a day traveling and only 2500 deaths per year.
Our biggest failing is in our consideration of other people's values for reasons of etiquette when our values are the best anyway.
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How dare you.moaninclaret wrote:MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY HAHAHAHAHAHA
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There's a place for you, up on the coast north of Sunderland Turtle, where you might be happy instead of Santa's grotto it's called Marsden's Grotto.
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Should I be worried that some of Pstotto's recent posts actually make sense?
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Drones? Watch out.ClaretAndJew wrote:Local mosque in Leeds has already sent fliers to the local communities about the offence it will cause.
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Anyway, I'm asking for some Asian immigration for Christmas because it shows Christian virtue, doesn't it?
Imploding Turtle wishes others "Merry Christmas"
And to you too IT.
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This is why the terrorists hate us.IanMcL wrote:And to you too IT.
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Amusing post.Whitgord wrote:I agree that I dislike the commercialism and hype. But for me it celebrates God’s intervention into the world because He loves us so much. That to me is worth celebrating. Oh and by the way I am over 15.
Will be even funnier if you're actually serious